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| 19.03.2018 | Meltwater has acquired DataSift to double down on social media analytics | In a week when all eyes are on Facebook and the subject of how data about us on social media platforms gets used without us knowing, there’s been some consolidation afoot in the world of media-based big data services. DataSift, the London-b... |
| 18.01.2017 | DataSift connects with LinkedIn as its latest social marketing partner | DataSift, which taps and structures data from social networks to provide more insights into it, has added a new partner to its own network. The company has linked up with LinkedIn — the social network for the working world with 467 million ... |
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Wikibon predicts Big Data market will reach $92.2B by 2026. According to Wikibon’s report, the market for big data software, hardware, and professional services grew to $22.6 billion last year and expected to r... |
| 09.08.2016 | Why privacy is the killer app | Tim Barker Contributor
Tim Barker is the CEO of DataSift.
Our world looks very different from when Steve Jobs held aloft the first iPhone in 2007. There were 1.2 billion people online globally. Gmail had fewer users than Yahoo’s mail servic... |
| 22.03.2016 | Tech Tour Selects European 50 High Growth Companies | Tech Tour, a platform that allows high-tech companies to develop strategic relations with investors, announced the 2016 Tech Tour Growth 50 (TTG50), which highlights the next generation of Europe’s fastest growth tech businesses.
The compan... |
| 16.12.2015 | The UK’s Diverse Tech Ecosystem is Boosted by 15 New Future Fifty Companies | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
Today we announce the latest group of companies who are joining, and graduating, from our Future Fifty programme. The companies chosen demonstrate growing location and sector ... |
| 23.10.2015 | DataSift CEO Halstead step downs to form new company | Tim Barker, DataSift’s chief product officer, will lead it as it transitions away from Twitter
The year of the great CEO turnover continues, this time with social data platform DataSift getting new leadership at the top.
Founder and CEO Nic... |
| 23.10.2015 | DataSift CEO Nick Halstead steps down, leaves the company he founded to start a new one | British entrepreneur Nick Halstead, founder and CEO of IPO candidate DataSift (which has raised $78 million in funding) has decided to step down from his position and leave the company to pursue his entrepreneurial ambitions and kickstart a... |
| 23.10.2015 | Nick Halstead, Founder Of Big Data Analytics Firm DataSift, Steps Down As CEO | Another big change for DataSift — the UK startup that applies analytics to social network data firehoses to surface trends, which had a notable break up with Twitter earlier this year. Nick Halstead, who founded the company in 2010, is step... |
| 26.07.2015 | Synthesio scores access to data on what Facebook users think about, say, Donald Trump | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The data treasure trove otherwise known as Facebo... |
| 26.07.2015 | Synthesio scores access to data on what Facebook users think about, say, Donald Trump | The data treasure trove otherwise known as Facebook houses discussions by you and a billion+ other humans on every topic under the sun.
Today, social intelligence firm Synthesio announced a partnership with data provider DataSift to access ... |
| 16.07.2015 | DataSift brings machine learning to analyzing social data | Information from social media is becoming more and more important to many companies. But extracting data and getting something useful from it can prove difficult.
Business intelligence specialist DataSift is launching a new technology calle... |
| 04.06.2015 | Datasift Expands Its Reach With New Pulsar Deal To Make Facebook Topic Data Bigger | Datasift, which has raised a total of $77.9 million to date, is partnering with social analytics platform Pulsar to make anonymized Facebook topic data available to any brands, government, charities and businesses. Last year Datasift did a ... |
| 15.04.2015 | Twitter Set To Strike IBM-Style Analytics Deal With NTT Data | In the aftermath of Twitter’s big data division GNIP announcing that it would no longer make firehose reseller agreements with third parties, Twitter has provided an update on how one of its firehose licensees is being affected. In a blog p... |
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| 11.04.2015 | Datasift says goodbye to its Twitter data access | Data reseller Datasift said today that its access to Twitter’s firehose is ending.
In a post on the corporate blog entitled “Twitter Ends its Partnership with DataSift,” CEO and founder Nick Halstead said his company’s customers will have a... |
| 11.04.2015 | Datasift says goodbye to its Twitter data access | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Data reseller Datasift said today that its access... |
| 11.04.2015 | Twitter Cuts Off DataSift To Step Up Its Own Big Data Business | In the push for more revenue growth, Twitter has been building up its business in areas like advertising and commerce, but a move made late Friday night points to another area where the company is setting its sights: big data analytics.
Twi... |
| 19.03.2015 | 7 principles your company should adopt to stay on the right side of the creepy line | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
LinkedIn recently announced changes to restrict a... |
| 12.03.2015 | Facebook to mine user data for marketers | Facebook has partnered with human data intelligence firm DataSift to offer a new data mining product to companies for marketing purposes.
The social media giant's 'Topic Data' product will trawl through the company's trove of user data to a... |
| 10.03.2015 | Facebook Tells Marketers About What Users Are Saying | Facebook announced that it is going to begin offering topic data to marketers in an effort to let businesses get a better idea of what people are saying about their products on Facebook, so they can better optimize their strategies.
Would y... |
| 10.03.2015 | Facebook Finally Lets Its Firehose Be Tapped For Marketing Insights Thanks To DataSift | Twitter’s firehose of tweets has long been offered as a goldmine for businesses trying to understand how to improve or market their products, and now Facebook will allow privacy-safe peeks at its treasure trove, too. Today Facebook launched... |
| 10.03.2015 | New Facebook data analysis tool shows marketers what their customers are talking about | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Facebook today unveiled Topic Data, a new tool designed to give its marketing partners more information about what their customers are ... |
| 10.03.2015 | New Facebook data analysis tool shows marketers what their customers are talking about | Facebook today unveiled Topic Data, a new tool designed to give its marketing partners more information about what their customers are talking about.
In a blog post, Facebook wrote that the tool lets advertisers see what their customers are... |
| 04.12.2014 | Datasift Unveils New Conversation Feature, Guns for a $500M Valuation | Datasift has come a long way. It’s now at 135 people (is aiming for 200 people next year), is poised to open a London Office (it’s actually been based just outside London all this time), and has raised nearly $80m in venture. TechCrunch und... |
| 14.07.2014 | Lexalytics Acquires Semantria To Bring Sentiment Analysis To The Masses | Sentiment analysis is an important tool for businesses looking to get a better understanding of how their customers feel about their products. Instead of surveys that offer abstract ratings, it lets companies look at the emotions underlying... |
| 15.04.2014 | DataSift: There Is No Change To Our Firehose Deal With Twitter After Gnip Acquisition | Earlier today, Twitter announced that it acquired Gnip, one of its partners that uses Twitter’s firehose of data and parses it for third parties who mine the social network for market insights. One natural follow-up question: what happens t... |
| 23.03.2014 | The Rise Of The Euro Mega-Round | Slowly, quietly, but increasingly more noisily, startups originally hailing from Europe but going global have been raising larger and larger funding rounds. The linch-pin in the ecosystem has been financing from London (handily, that’s wher... |
| 12.12.2013 | DataSift Launches Vedo To Help Enterprises Channel The Big Social Data Firehose | DataSift has built a reputation as a provider of Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr firehoses — streams of unstructured data from those and dozens of other social sources, which can then be used in applications to track larger user sentiment and ... |
| 03.12.2013 | Social data platform DataSift raises $42 million | DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, announced today it has secured $42 million in Series C financing led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors. The funding will be used to accelerate the ... |
| 03.12.2013 |
Upfront Re-Ups On Datasift
| Los Angeles-based venture investor Upfront Ventures has re-upped its investment in San Francisco-based social data provider Datasift. Datasift said it raised $42M Tuesday morning, led by Insight Venture Partners and also including prior inv... |
| 03.12.2013 | DataSift Secures $42M in Series C Financing | DataSift, a San Francisco, New York City and Reading, U.K.-based provider of a social data platform, secured $42m in Series C financing.
The round was led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture... |
| 03.12.2013 | Funding Daily: Giving Tuesday | Today is Giving Tuesday — the next T-day after Thanksgiving that bookends a weekend of spending that follows the one day we’re supposed to give thanks for what we already have.
Seems VCs were happy to give millions of dollars to startups, a... |
| 03.12.2013 | Firehose Provider DataSift Raises $42M Led By Insight Venture Partners For Global and Non-Social Ambitions | DataSift, a social data platform that provides brands and enterprises with access to content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and dozens of other social networks, is today announcing a $42 million, Series C round of funding. Rob ... |
| 03.12.2013 | DataSift grabs $42M to grow its social data platform | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Big data startup DataSift has closed a fresh $42 ... |
| 03.12.2013 | DataSift Secures $42M in Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Platform that powers the social economy, announced today it has secured $42 million in Series C financing led by Insight Venture Partners.
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| 03.12.2013 | Social data platform DataSift raises $42 million | Funding will be used to expand internationally, and to expand to data types other than social
Social data platform DataSift has picked up $42 million in Series C funding, it was announced on Tuesday.
The funding was led by Insight Venture P... |
| 26.09.2013 | DataSift Now Offering Historical Social Data Analysis Across Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Bitly & More Combined | Fresh on the heels of its deal with Tumblr for access to the Tumblr “firehose,” social data platform DataSift is putting that data, and more, to good use with the launch of a new API that performs historical analysis across Twitter, Tumblr,... |
| 16.09.2013 | DataSift teams up with Tumblr to help analyze its data | Company will find trends and high traffic topics on Tumblrs 137 million blogs and 61 million posts
As everyone knows, Yahoo bought Tumblr earlier this year for around $1 billion. And I don't have to tell you that nobody would make that kind... |
| 16.09.2013 | Tumblr Gets More Ad-Friendly With DataSift Deal | Yahoo-owned Tumblr has a new deal in place with social analytics provider DataSift. The deal (the terms of which are unknown) sees DataSift get access to the Tumblr firehose, to offer users Tumblr data alongside that from Google, Twitter, F... |
| 12.04.2013 | Schmap Takes A Deeper Dive Into Twitter Audience Data With Demographics Pro | Schmap already helped advertisers and other companies understand their Twitter followers through its Know Your Followers product, but today it launched a new, upgraded service called Demographics Pro — CEO Paul Hallett described the concept... |
| 14.02.2013 | DataSift Launches Open Source Query Builder, Aims To Embed Social Monitoring In Enterprise Tools | Social monitoring startup DataSift is releasing an open source, embeddable version of its Query Builder today, allowing anyone to customize and embed the company’s tool for conducting social media searches.
Founder and CTO Nick Halstead tol... |
| 07.12.2012 | Tech Trailblazers Awards judges invest their virtual millions | Experts armed with pile of Tech Trailblazing “dollars” invest in their pick of the finalists. You can vote for your favorites now too – Deadline just a week away
London, 7th December 2012 – As voting for the first-annual, highly successful ... |
| 15.11.2012 | On Twitter, Who Clicks On What? — DataSift Signs bitly Partnership To Finally Find Out | DataSift – which provides developers and third parties with a platform to access realtime data from Twitter, Facebook and other social sources – is on a bit of a roll. This week it announced it had raised $15.25 million in a Series B fundin... |
| 14.11.2012 | Startup News: Etsy Goes Big for Christmas and Bloomberg Giving Away Big Prize to Makers | Mr. Dickerson (Photo: Twitter.com)
Lots Of Tiny Wicker Puppets Sold Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson took to the company’s blog to address his craft-obsessed minons and report big new numbers. Etsy recently hit 20 million members across over 200 cou... |
| 13.11.2012 | Funding Daily: A feast of funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You’ve had large servings of funding news served ... |
| 13.11.2012 | DataSift Snares $15M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Leading social data platform company, announced today that it has received $15 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners.
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| 13.11.2012 | DataSift raises $15 million in Series B funding | Twitter data organization tool has now raised over $30 million since 2011 launch
DataSift, the social data platform company that enables enterprises and entrepreneurs to aggregate, filter and extract insights from the billions of public soc... |
| 13.11.2012 | DataSift Receives $15M in Series B Funding | DataSift, a San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Reading, U.K.-based provider of a social data platform company, has received $15m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from current investors ... |
| 12.11.2012 | DataSift Raises $15M To Help Businesses Mine And Analyze Social Data | DataSift, a company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, has raised $15.25 million in Series B funding led by Scale Venture Partners with Northgate Capital and Daher Capi... |
| 12.11.2012 | DataSift nabs $15M from SVP, Northgate, & Daher to better analyze & process social data | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Social data startup DataSift has raised $15 milli... |
| 26.09.2012 | TweetMeme Just Officially Died | TweetMeme just announced that it is shutting down. If you’ll recall, they were responsible for the original retweet button, but over the years, Twitter effectively rendered the button useless for most sites, as more and more adopted Twitter... |
| 11.09.2012 | DataSift’s March On Wall Street Continues — Launches Social Feeds For Stock Symbols | DataSift, the ‘social data platform’ that provides developers and third parties with the ability to access and interrogate Twitter, Facebook and other real-time social sources, is continuing its march on Wall Street: The company has launche... |
| 29.08.2012 | Twitter Launches “Twitter Certified Products” — Partners With DataSift, Gnip, HootSuite & Others | Twitter just launched its “Certified Products Program” to highlight “the best products and services to thrive on Twitter.” The program is meant to help companies find “the best tools to engage with their customers” and “understand what peop... |
| 21.08.2012 | DataSift Debuts More Powerful Tools To Help Businesses Analyze Social Data | DataSift, company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, is debuting new tools today to help businesses easily mine, filter and incorporate large amounts of social data int... |
| 17.08.2012 | One Thing is For Sure —Twitter Wants Nothing To Do With The Enterprise | Apigee’s Sam Ramji pointed out to me today that Twitter did a first when communicating with developers yesterday about its new platform policies. For the first time in recent memory Twitter has used a graphic to actually illustrate what it ... |
| 08.08.2012 | Social Data Platform DataSift Sets Targets On Wall Street; Hires Financial Vets, Opens New York Office | DataSift, the ‘social data platform’ that provides developers and third parties with the ability to access and interrogate Twitter, Facebook and other real-time social sources, is doubling down on its Wall Street play today. The company is ... |
| 20.06.2012 | Hey, Wikipedia Spammers, Start Getting Worried — Datasift Has Built A Tool To Track You | Datasift, the social-data platform which specialises in realtime streams, has done something which is going to make PR people quiver in their boots and journalists sit up and notice. They have turned any changes on Wikipedia into a realtime... |
| 18.05.2012 | Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today | Facebook’s IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some intere... |
| 02.05.2012 | DataSift Raises $7.2M For Powerful Social Data Analysis And Business Intelligence Platform | DataSift, a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, has raised $7.2 million in a follow-on Series A round from existing investors GRP Partners and IA V... |
| 02.05.2012 | DataSift scores new round to make sense of social data, plans move into startup city | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
DataSift, a social data platform that extracts la... |
| 02.05.2012 | DataSift scores new round to make sense of social data, plans move into startup city | DataSift, a social data platform that extracts large amounts of data from a number of online sources, raised $7.2 million in a first round of funding from existing investors IA Ventures and GRP Partners, the company announced today. The fun... |
| 02.05.2012 | DataSift Secures $7.2M in Follow-on Series A Funding | DataSift, a San Francisco, CA-based social data platform company, has secured $7.2m in a follow-on Series A funding round.
Backers include existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures.
The company intends to use the funding to accelerate... |
| 02.04.2012 | DataSift Teams Up With NewsCred For Deep Data Analysis Of Social Media And News Content | DataSift, a data analysis company that provides developers and third parties with access to Twitter, Facebook and other social data sources, is teaming up with NewsCred to allow clients to perform deep data analysis and monitoring of social... |
| 27.02.2012 | DataSift Unlocks Access To Historical Twitter Data Dating Back To January 2010 | DataSift, one of Twitter’s data partners which currently provides developers and third parties with access to the full Twitter firehose in realtime, is about to unlock a whole new set of Twitter data to the ecosystem. The social data platfo... |
| 23.02.2012 | Founders Den Demo Day Part Deux: 14 Startups Come Out Of Hibernation | Our SOMA neighbor and “clubhouse for entrepreneurs” Founders Den had its second Demo Day today, out of its spacious office in SOMA. Many of the startups presenting were niche plays, trying to tackle the issues of curation and data in variou... |
| 08.02.2012 | IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund | Before big data was a hot investing theme, Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge. His NYC-based fund, IA Ventures, has backed companies such as Billguard... |
| 07.12.2011 | DataSift To Offer Access To Historical Tweets | Twitter developers have long been pining for access to historical Tweets. Right now, the best they can get is 7 days worth based on keyword search. DataSift, one of Twitter’s data partners which currently provides developers and third parti... |
| 16.11.2011 | What a Tweet Can Tell You | Imagine a tiny little sun, just bursting with heat and light, but trapped inside a hard metal cover with a few holes to let beams of energy stream out from inside. Now imagine there were millions of those little suns, maybe the size of bask... |
| 18.07.2011 | European VC Needs Revolution, Not Evolution | This is a guest post by Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Venture based out of Boston. Previously Destin was, for years, an active VC in Europe, working on DailyMotion, Seatwave, Zoopla and a number of other high profile European startup inve... |
| 18.07.2011 | Destin: European VC Needs Revolution, Not Evolution | This is a guest post by Fred Destin, a Partner at Atlas Venture based out of Boston. Previously Destin was, for years, an active VC in Europe, working on DailyMotion, Seatwave, Zoopla and a number of other high profile European startup inve... |
| 11.07.2011 |
GRP Partners Backs DataSift
| Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners said today that it has made another investment in the Twitter ecosystem, and has led a $6M, Series A investment in Datasift. Datasift is a provider of real-time, analytics and management t... |
| 11.07.2011 | DataSift – The little startup (from Europe) that could [TCTV] | When I first met and interviewed Nick Halstead in a tiny, unassuming office an hour’s drive from central London in October 2008, I realised I was meeting someone who was passionate not just about startups, but had the kind of deep technical... |
| 05.04.2011 | DataSift unleashes the full Twitter Firehose | Developers looking to monitor and analyze tweet data from the entire microblogging site now can
MediaSift Ltd., a developer of social media tools and platforms for the real-time social Web, announced Monday that it and Twitter have partnere... |
| 04.04.2011 | Twitter And Mediasift Partner To Resell Firehose Data | Twitter and realtime data curation service Mediasift have just announced a data resell partnership here at the Data 2.0 Conference at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
This move is similar to when Twitter partnered with realtime data provi... |
| 04.04.2011 | Twitter announces firehose partnership with DataSift | Twitter and social media data company Mediasift today that they’re partnering to sell access to Twitter’s “firehose” of data. Mediasift is only the second company to sign such a deal with Twitter — the other is Gnip.
I interviewed Twitter’s... |
| 26.01.2011 | The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter? | The rise of social media has led to an exponential proliferation of content online and widespread demand for tools to filter that information. Popularity and relevance are the most common metrics through which to filter that content – but a... |
| 29.11.2010 | Twitter starts to predict contestant exits from The X-Factor | Glancing at my Twitter stream of an evening, I’ve been surprised at the number of Geeks watching The X-Factor TV show (in the UK) . But then I guess it lends itself extremely well to witty asides on Twitter. This actually makes the show wor... |
| 29.09.2010 | Startup Battlefield: The Final 7 Make Their Closing Arguments | The TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield is approaching its dramatic conclusion, and the 7 finalists remaining are making their closing arguments in front of a panel of all-star Silicon Valley judges. Here are their questions and the star... |
